JIMMY BUFFETT - He Went To Paris lyrics

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By: jimmy buffett<br>1973<br>He went to paris lookin' for answers<br>To questions that bothered him so<br>He was impressive, young and aggressive<br>Savin' the world on his own<br><br>But the warm summer breezes<br>The french wines and cheeses<br>Put his ambition at bay<br>The summers and winters<br>Scattered like splinters<br>And four or five years slipped away<br><br>Then he went to england, played the piano<br>And married an actress named kim<br>They had a fine life, she was a good wife<br>And bore him a young son named jim<br><br>And all of the answers and all of the questions<br>Locked in his attic one day<br>'cause he liked the quiet clean country livin'<br>And twenty more years slipped away<br><br>Well the war took his baby, the bombs killed his lady<br>And left him with only one eye<br>His body was battered, his whole world was shattered<br>And all he could do was just cry<br><br>While the tears were a-fallin' he was recallin'<br>Answers he never found<br>So he hopped on a freighter, skidded the ocean<br>And left england without a sound<br><br>Now he lives in the islands, fishes the pilin's<br>And drinks his green label each day<br>Writing his memoirs, losin' his hearin'<br>But he don't care what most people say<br><br>Through eighty-six years of perpetual motion<br>If he likes you he'll smile and he'll say<br>Jimmy, some of it's magic, some of it's tragic<br>But I had a good life all the way<br><br>Coda:<br>And he went to paris lookin' for answers<br>To questions that bothered him so